Update at 10:14 a.m.: Dallas police say that the jeweler was walking into the Hilton Anatole when the unidentified suspects pulled up, jumped out with handguns drawn, and demanded the man’s property. Senior Corporal Melinda Gutierrez says that “he released it, backed away, they took the [jewels] and then left.” She says detectives believe this was “very organized,” but haven’t yet determined if this week’s heist is related to last week’s.

Original item at 8:31 a.m.: At 3:28 Wednesday afternoon, Dallas police were dispatched to 2201 Stemmons Freeway — the Hilton Anatole. When they arrived, they discovered an out-of-town jeweler had been robbed at gunpoint in the parking lot, the second such incident in a week.

In this case, according to a police report, the jeweler works for a Germany-based gemstone-cutter. Details are scarce at this point, but according to the report an unknown number of suspects brandishing guns got away with $700,000 in assorted gemstones, not to mention the jeweler’s laptop and cellphone.

We’re awaiting further details from Dallas police.

But yesterday’s incident sounds familiar: One week earlier, on November 28, a jeweler from Hong Kong was robbed — at gunpoint and at knifepoint — in the parking lot of the Hampton Inn on Composite Drive, near Walnut Hill Lane and Stemmons Freeway. Three men got away with $54,000 worth of gold-ring and earring mountings.

As we noted last week, four years ago Dallas police dealt with a similar rash of broad-daylight jewel heists. And at that time, police said it was likely the gunmen followed their targets from their respective hometowns to Dallas.

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